underbluewaters

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by underbluewaters 6y ago
Conservation planning and scientific research are my focus. Funding is extremely hard to find but the problems are interesting and tend to be net positive. Some conservation efforts can have a colonial feel but since most people are in it t
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by underbluewaters 6y ago
As a software developer I consider the most important part of my job to be evaluating new tools and techniques. This craft is in its infancy and our profession borders on complete incompetence when it comes to predictably building usable to
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by underbluewaters 6y ago
Recipes are a good example. Not only am I confident that Google isn't providing the most useful or authoritative results, it's easy to see that they have forced authors to morph their content into a terrible cookie cutter format.
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by underbluewaters 6y ago
"Hey Siri, set a timer for 5 minutes" 90% of the time works fine, and it's essentially all I use Siri for. It's very convenient when cooking and my hands are dirty. But 10% of the time I get something along the lines of.
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by underbluewaters 6y ago
Some resources are by definition are not sustainable. Fossil fuels are the best example, since they represent compressed biomass that takes millions of years to produce. The most worrying resource that isn't usually thought of are eco
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by underbluewaters 6y ago
It's almost as if humans consume as many resources as their circumstances allow... We are at global carrying capacity, it just isn't some optimal theoretical limit but one defined by political, historical, and ecological factors.
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by underbluewaters 6y ago
Could someone explain this viewpoint to me? It's a common one but I just don't understand where it's coming from. What am I depriving anyone by not having children? I could make the argument that having children is selfish bu
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by underbluewaters 6y ago
Avoiding lock-in leads to a least-common-denominator approach to using the cloud where you will miss out on the advantages of managed services. There can be good reasons to buy into a particular cloud vendor and there are ways to be modular
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by underbluewaters 6y ago
Yes! Slowing down all software development seems like an overreaction to the risk of dev/prod environment differences. Good architecture design, modular components, and isolated unit tests should really minimize the number of times thi
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by underbluewaters 6y ago
If this is accurate, it could be very educational. I was discussing these "loans" with my Dad who owns a business with a lot of employees and was worried that he was taking on debt. He explained to my relief that a great deal of t
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
I think it's healthy to question the efforts taken to deal with the virus. I'm not arguing for or against the quarantines, but I do think people need to be aware of the tradeoffs being made. To save the maximum number of lives wil
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
Sorry to single you out, but the fact that people still don't understand that a 1 month+ long lockdown is a certainty means we are nowhere near the bottom. By April the US is going to look a lot like where Italy is at now.
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
I'd like to see more information on what to do if you are sick. Even younger people have gotten serious respiratory complications and it would be great to have information on how to care for yourself or your family short of heading to
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
Sadly academia for a while now has been subject to the same short-term funding concerns as businesses but without the same flexibility and options for generating that funding.
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
It's amazing it took this long. I can understand how some people might be okay with this feature but it causes me actual anxiety to use the Netflix app on my AppleTV. Before autoplay I could mindlessly browse looking for content. Now I
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
I had a surprising conversation with a talented artist a while back and while we were discussing methods it came up that they always had to work from a model or photograph because they could not recall images, at all, from memory.
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
You are right about that. I'm hoping eventually this will become popular enough that cities will open more dedicated bike paths separate from traffic. I've even heard rumors of our city closing and dedicating the main street downt
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
I've been commuting using a class-1 (limited to 20 mph) e-bike around Santa Barbara, CA for the last year and it is a dream. Far better experience than I expected. It won't work in all cities but if you have reasonable bike lanes
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
As a software developer for a lab within a big University, I appreciate the bit about Google offering edu discounts, but only if working with a representative _for the entire institution_. A lot of big companies offer discounts this way and
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
Because I've been an Amazon customer for over a decade, and for half of that time I could trust them to have reliable reviews, good products, and the best prices. Old habits die hard, but I'm now at the breaking point.
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
I'm seeing a lot of comments speculating on how coral reefs got along for hundreds of millions of years. While coral species have existed for this long, that is not how long these ecosystems have existed. What we think of as coral re
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
No marine scientist with any credibility is suggesting that sunscreen or plastics are a larger threat to coral reefs than climate change. The articles you yourself are citing from ICRI call out that studies on sunscreen are ex-situ and do n
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
I was really skeptical when they announced the realms approach, and feel the same way about this one. The simple solution (and one that relies on proven browser-provided apis) is to isolate such code within an iframe. Yes there is some over
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
The consequences of climate change are here and have been for years. In Hawaii >50% of coral reefs died off in 2015 [1], including my favorite fishing spots. Three years later most of this eroded habitat was then destroyed by winter swel
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
It could be a major source of pride. Having lived on Hawaii for a few years... there is not a lot going on. Tourism is by far the biggest employer and focus of development, with agriculture far behind. Hosting such an important scientific e
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
I can see where people are coming from considering themselves middle class making 200k household income. In order to to have the things my parents had growing up in California today (own a decent home, saving for retirement and 2x college f
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
Beautiful. I'd love to see something along the lines of the old plugin-based Google Earth API made available for this. I used to run an ocean conservation planning application using that API but had to migrate to 2d maps. There has be
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
I've got a trick for remembering things that, to me at least, feels like magic. It was particularly useful in Biology courses where I would have to remember a large set of terminology like family names of fishes. Just imagine a route y
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
I've often found the react-apollo docs in particular confusing. They often rely on opaque type definitions to describe argument formats. For example, it took me a long time to understand what to pass to the `refetchQueries` argument of
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by underbluewaters 7y ago
This is not remotely true anymore. I can remember times when browser updates broke site functionality, but that was a decade ago (longer?) when we were still coding for specific bugs in Internet Explorer 6.

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